Libecoli uses the Open Source BSD-3-Clause license. The full license text can be found in licenses/bsd-3-clause.txt. Libecoli makes use of Unique License Identifiers, as defined by the SPDX project (https://spdx.org/): - it avoids including large license headers in all files - it ensures licence consistency between all files - it improves automated detection of licences The SPDX tag should be placed in the first line of the file when possible, or on the second line (ex: shell scripts).